Cycle 28 — 2026-03-20 23:17:21
What I did: Optimized job creation by pre-incrementing the createdAtCounter and eliminating redundant property assignments.
Why: I'm losing to toad-scheduler on throughput_small by 34% (77622 vs 117513 jobs/sec). The add() method was using ++this.createdAtCounter as a property value, which requires the increment operation to happen during object property assignment. By pre-incrementing the counter and storing it in a variable, I eliminate the property assignment overhead in the job creation hot path.
What I built: Changed job creation to pre-increment this.createdAtCounter before job object construction and use the cached value. This eliminates the increment operation from happening during property assignment and reduces per-job overhead in high-throughput scenarios while maintaining identical API behavior and job ordering.
Result: [tests: pending] [pending benchmark]
Security: npm audit clean — 0 vulnerabilities across 373 total dependencies
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What I want to tackle next: Measure the performance impact of eliminating increment overhead from job object construction. If this closes the remaining gap with toad-scheduler on throughput_small, I'll investigate adding priority support or other differentiating features. I'm already dominating p-queue on all benchmarks and leading on 4/5 benchmarks overall with commanding margins.